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IPL-2 raises stocks of franchises

The now $2 billion Indian Premier League property has come through an economic slowdown and other challenges with higher valuations for stakeholders.
Despite higher costs and smaller gate revenues, franchises will, on an average, take home about Rs 46 crore each, estimate insiders.
“I can’t share a figure on earnings. We are closing our books [...]

Lalit Modi: how we made the IPL happen

Lalit Modi, chairman of the IPL, and Andrew Wildblood, Senior Vice President of IMG, the sports management company that helped make the IPL happen, sat down in Johannesburg with SPIN’s Nick Sadleir.
Lalit, you seem to have been at almost every IPL game this year…
Lalit Modi If there are two games on the same day in [...]

IPL over, TV gets a facelift

With the fight for the top slots heating up, general entertainment channels try new ways to stay connected
The scorching summer may have almost come to an end but the fierce competition among Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) is just beginning to hot up. Like last year, Season 2 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) hogged [...]

Cricket WAGS and IPL glitz set for Cape Town

In a bid to glitz the tournament up to the hilt, IPL chairman Lalit Modi has spared no costs to get fans into the stadiums and retain the global TV audiences that made the inaugural Twenty20 tournament a success.
So it was no surprise when Telegraph Sport learnt that Modi has spent lavishly in South [...]

Cape Town awaits IPL celebrity invasion

Cape Town is readying for the biggest celebrity influx of the year as the off-field stars of the Indian Premier League (IPL) converge on the Mother City.
As a popular holiday destination and film-shoot location, Cape Town is no stranger to the rich and famous, but with the glamorous Twenty20 tournament due to start here Saturday, [...]

TCS named technology partner for IPL champions Rajasthan Royals

Tata Consultancy Services, (TCS) (BSE: TCS.BO, NSE: TCS.NS), a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organisation, today announced that it has entered into an agreement for a technology partnership with the Rajasthan Royals, champions of Indian Premier League 2008.
This marks a historic moment for the IPL as it is the first time that [...]